Royal Institution Lecturer, 1999, in the 'Scientists for
the new century' series.

Research Interests

My major research interests are in Environmental Magnetism
and Palaeomagnetism, for purposes of retrieving quantitative
palaeoclimatic, palaeoenvironmental and dating information from the
magnetic records of Quaternary terrestrial sediments (soils,
dust, loess, lake sediments), deep-sea sediments, and pre-Quaternary
rocks.

I am also involved in application of magnetic methods
to environmental processes and problems, including: magnetic
monitoring and sourcing of particulate pollutants
(especially particles smaller than 5 micrometres in size,
particularly hazardous to health); tracing of modern fluvial sediment
sources; and magnetic ‘clean-up’ of contaminated waters.

42) Maher, B.A . & Hu, M.
(2006). A high-resolution record of Holocene rainfall variations
from the western Chinese Loess Plateau: Antiphase behaviour of the
African/Indian and East Asian summer monsoons. The Holocene 16,
309-19. [24]. Download the pdf of this
paper.

21) Hounslow, M.W. and Maher, B.A. (1999) Source of the climate signal
recorded by magnetic susceptibility variations in Indian Ocean
sediments.J. Geophyical Research (Solid
Earth), 104, 5047-5061 [28]. Download the pdf of this
paper

10) Hallam, D.F. and Maher, B.A. (1994) A record of reversed polarity
carried by the iron sulphide, greigite in British early Pleistocene
sediments.Earth Planetary Science Letters,
121, 71-80.[39]

8) Maher,
B.A. and Thompson, R. (1992) Paleoclimatic significance of the
mineral magnetic record of the Chinese loess and paleosols. Quaternary Research, 37,
155-170.[195]
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paper

7) Maher,
B.A. and Thompson, R. (1991) Mineral magnetic record of the
Chinese loess and paleosols.Geology, 19, 3-6.[247] Download the pdf of this
paper